- published: 05 Jun 2016
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Death is the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury. Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death. Death has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion, due to the termination of social and familial bonds with the deceased or affection for the being that has died. Other concerns include fear of death, necrophobia, anxiety, sorrow, grief, emotional pain, depression, sympathy, compassion, solitude, or saudade.
The word death comes from Old English deað, which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic *dauthuz (reconstructed by etymological analysis). This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem *dheu- meaning the "Process, act, condition of dying".
The concept and symptoms of death, and varying degrees of delicacy used in discussion in public forums, have generated numerous scientific, legal, and socially acceptable terms or euphemisms for death. When a person has died, it is also said they have passed away, passed on, expired, or are gone, among numerous other socially accepted, religiously specific, slang, and irreverent terms. Bereft of life, the dead person is then a corpse, cadaver, a body, a set of remains, and when all flesh has rotted away, a skeleton. The terms carrion and carcass can also be used, though these more often connote the remains of non-human animals. As a polite reference to a dead person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of "decease", as in the deceased; another noun form is decedent. The ashes left after a cremation are sometimes referred to by the neologism cremains, a portmanteau of "cremation" and "remains".
Unselfish the death is passed to someone new
Dreadful dreary night will set the tone
Night, this evil night, for on this night
It knows who'll be the one to die
Night, this evil night, for on this night
The grip of death's closer
Night, this evil night, for on this night
The waiting line to suffer
Night, this evil night, for on this night
It was always you who'd be the one to die!
Say your prayers and lock your doors from a visit from
dread
The only chance you had is gone the visitor's here
Beware the errors in your life a visit from dread
Say your prayers and lock your doors the visitor's here
Say your prayers and lock your doors from a visit from
dread
The only chance you had is gone the visitor's here
Beware the errors in your life a visit from dread
There are no prayers, no doors to lock. The victim is
YOU!